“The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.”

“Serious art is born from serious play.”

“Life is serious but art is fun!”

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”

“In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.”

“It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.”

“If there is a god, why did he make me an atheist? That was his first mistake. Well, the talking snake was his first mistake.”

“The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers.
The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.”

“It is of fundamental importance not to make the positivist mistake of assuming that because a group’s members are in formation this means that they’re necessarily on course.”

“Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.”